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Hi ringo, InMessage 1000 you said: 2 bolts means the 14' 8" pole was supported in two directions. It would need four bolts to be supported where it would not fall in a little breeze.If it was bolted to an object that was buried in the ground two bolts would be sufficient.But why bother taking the pole down. I would pull out about 10' of tape and run it up the pole until the tape was at the top of the pole. I would press the tape with my left hand 6' off the ground and pull out more tape that I could fold at the bottom of the pole. I would read the tape and announce the height of the pole to be 14' 8".BTW Just so you know I can extend my tape 8' straight out from my body without it bending so there is no problem extending it 8' above my head. So rotate the Empire Building 90 degrees and tell me how long it is.The Empire State Building is 424 feet long or wide on 34th st which ever suits you. The depth is 187 feet on 5th Av and it stands 1454 feet high from ground to tip.God Bless,

Hi Dr, I even know what ochre is.Ochre is a natural pigment from yellow to deep orange or brown. Used throughout history, these permanent pigments can be safely mixed with other pigments.Red ochre is a variant of ochre containing a large amount of hematite, or dehydrated iron oxide, has a reddish tint known as "red ochre"If I understand why I see different colors it is that light waves reflect off objects and hit the light-sensitive retina at the back of my eye. That's where cones come in. Cones are one type of photoreceptor, the tiny cells in the retina that respond to light.God Bless,

The sun rose also when a year was 360 days. Looking at the sun rise now will not tell you how long a year used to be.

Yep. We do understand a little. We know we can measure something repeatedly, replicate measurements and experiments, and develop a coherent theory of how it acts. That's enough. You really should not shoot your mouth off about the many things of which you are totally ignorant.No, Galileo was not trying to figure out why something dropped. He was trying to characterize in what manner things dropped under different circumstances. Part of developing a coherent theory of how it acts. As we have done for time.

Congratulations! That's true.That's also why nobody is stupid enough to look at the Sun rising now and trying to figure out how long a day was in the past.

Again, you're proving my point. It's only the light that is red and that is only because of its wavelength. Different wavelengths interact with our eyes differently, which is why we see different colors. Different wavelengths also interact differently with different substances, so we wouldn't expect the same red light to reflect in the same way from red ochre and from white cloth.

No it doesn't. It means that the upper part of the pole was hinged. In Message 1014 JonF gave you the link Page Not Found - poletech which shows pretty clearly how it works.In fact, in that example there is only one locking bolt, so she would only have had to remove one bolt. In the joke, the ICANT character couldn't figure out how to measure the pole. Presumably he had already tried your way and it didn't work. Maybe he didn't have a stiff enough tape measure with him that day.Again, the point of the joke is that he couldn't see any other point of view that wasn't already carved in stone in his brain. You're just reinforcing that point. I asked how you would line up the end of your tape with the top of the pole. That's hard enough to do accurately from two feet away. Try doing that in the wind.And again, in the joke, the ICANT character couldn't figure out how to do it. Everything he had tried had failed. You point out the flaw in your own question. The length or width are whatever suits me. The dimensions are interchangeable. You have to specify more than "width" or 'length" if you want an accurate answer. In English, we would seldom use the word "depth" that way.Edited by ringo, : No reason given.

So how do you determine how long a year "used to be"?Edited by ringo, : No reason given.

Hi ringo, The human eye picks up the colors if the person is not color blind.God Bless,

Hi ringo, Then you should have used someone else's name as I am a contractor that drew my own blueprints. Then you have never built as many things as I have and made hundreds of those kind of measurements. In the wind is no problem just use the 35 foot tape which has a 1 1/4 inch wide tape. The 25' tape has a 1" wide tape.If that fails just hang the 6' T bar over the top of the pole and measure to the base of the pole add the 72 inches to what the tape reads at the bottom of the T bar and you got the answer. Neither the (width) length or depth are interchangeable with the height of the Empire State Building. I take it you have never worked around a construction project.I am going to assume you have cabinets in your kitchen.Pick out any cabinet in the kitchen and give me the width, height, and depth of that cabinet.God Bless,

Hi ringo, Isn't that determined by the duration it takes the earth to go around the sun?God Bless,

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Guess that was not the same.

And the human eye works on light. If a certain wavelength of light is captured by the eye, it doesn't matter whether that light came from a red ochre pigment or a red light bulb. The same red is seen the same way. There is no "red" in the ochre or the light bulb. The red is the wavelength of the light - i.e. it is a property of the light.

I used your name because you're the one who doesn't understand measurement. Nonsense. Nobody can line up a tape measure with the end of a pole accurately from fourteen feet away. Your eye needs to be orthogonal to the tip of the pole and the end of the tape measure. There is no T bar in the story. I didn't say they were. I said the length and width were interchangeable with each other.But with a rectangular box, the height might well be interchangeable too. When you set it on its "bottom", the "length" is end-to-end. If you set it on "end" to sit on it, the "height" is what used to be the "length". Wrong again. I come from generations of carpenters. Many of them didn't understand much English but they understood measurement better than you do. A cabinet does have depth. It's like a hole in the wall. Hollow objects have depth - the depth of the hollow.The "depth" of the Empire State Building would be the depth of its basement(s) or the depth of its foundations, which are part of its overall height. For a solid object, the width or length would not be called "depth".